MUS 418

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Regional Studies in Musicology

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Seminar devoted to intensive study in the music of specific peoples, states, or geographic regions from around the world.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 undergraduate hours or 16 graduate hours. Prerequisite: MUS 313 and MUS 314; junior standing; MUS 528A (for DMA or MM performance or composition students); or consent of instructor.

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MUS 418 class schedule data for fall 2019
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	42744	Lecture-Discussion	A	9:30AM -10:50AM	MW	220 Smith Memorial Hall	Magee, G Ramirez, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/19-12/11/19 Section Title: Music of the Spanish Atlantic Section Info: MUSIC OF THE SPANISH ATLANTIC. This course will examine music’s role in the culture, subjects, and politics of the Spanish Atlantic from the Early Modern period (ca. 1500) to today. The course will be organized in three units: Unit One will be an introductory survey of the musical idioms in Latin America; Unit Two will have a strong emphasis on the intersection of music and the cultural politics of race, class and gender; Unit Three presents a series of case studies in reggaeton—arguably one of the most popular contemporary Latin genres—and highlight the ways reggaetonhas developed from a localized underground Caribbean genre into a commercially successful global pop phenomenon that incorporates diverse Latin American and international styles. Examples for discussion will be drawn from the musical traditions of the Caribbean, as well as Central and South America. The course will be a combination or lecture and seminar style-discussion of assigned reading. Students will be required to complete a final project that may be written or performed.
	42745	Lecture-Discussion	B	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	0325 Music Building	Tsekouras, I	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/19-12/11/19 Section Title: MUSIC OF THE MIDDLE EAST Section Info: MUSIC OF THE MIDDLE EAST. The Middle East is a geo-political construct of the utmost importance for the “West.” The region, however defined, represented, or delineated, is recognized as the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of monotheism. However, the lands of the Middle East figure prominently and systematically as sites of conflict and trauma, fields of competing nationalisms and of clashing religious fundamentalisms. The cultures, arts, philosophies, theologies, and scholarly traditions originated in this part of the world have an auspicious status in western identity discourses. They have been approached both in admiration and as the quintessential Others. However, the “Middle East” entails its own voices of selfhood (and otherhood) that are constantly negotiated through music. In this course we will examine some of these musical voices and the ways they converse with the broader realties that affect them, through a selective number of case studies. The objective of the course is to offer a general introduction to major genres, traditions, and music characteristics of the Middle East. Given the multifarious and multilayered character of the topic, this introduction will take place through historical and ethnographic accounts that concern four cities: Istanbul, Cairo, Aleppo, and Jerusalem. These major urban centers are approached as sources and junctures of cultural threads that spread translocally, on both national and transnational levels. They also connect to each other in multiple ways, both through shared cultural heritages and in the context of contemporary politics. Recordings and documentaries will help students get acquainted with diverse repertories and practices that have been shaping these urban centers as spaces of musical production, preservation, exchange, consumption and conceptualization.